Terror-haunted

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In literature:

It suffices that they would all possess the essential elements of loneliness, bleakness and haunting terror.

"Short Story Writing" by Charles Raymond Barrett

Was it fair that in addition to this haunting terror she should be constantly harassed by a consciousness of her own personal danger?

"Second Book of Tales" by Eugene Field

They declared the place haunted and were in a state of terror even to be near it.

"Plotting in Pirate Seas" by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

He had forgotten everything, but the gentle creature whose dark-eyed terror haunted him.

"The Heart of Unaga" by Ridgwell Cullum

But here in their very haunts, I learnt the full amount of the terror they inspired.

"Curious, if True" by Elizabeth Gaskell

His thoughts went to his old life alone there, to the coming into it of the haunting voice, to his terror, his struggle, his flight southward.

"Tongues of Conscience" by Robert Smythe Hichens

Quamina cannot be persuaded it is not the devil himself haunting their domain, and is petrified with terror for the rest of the evening.

"When the Birds Begin to Sing" by Winifred Graham

Now all is sad, solitary and dreary, the haunt of spirits and spectres of nameless terror.

"Alonzo and Melissa" by Daniel Jackson, Jr.

But her terror of seeing a return of memory now was a haunting nightmare to her.

"Somehow Good" by William de Morgan

But here in their very haunts, I learnt the full amount of the terror they inspired.

"The Grey Woman and other Tales" by Mrs. (Elizabeth) Gaskell

Stark terror showed in the other's look which gradually changed to one of haunting fear and indecision.

"The Coyote" by James Roberts

My terrors haunted me all day.

"Masterpieces of Mystery" by Various

There was too much anxiety and agony in her mind for any of the nervous terrors which had haunted her during the day.

"A Noble Woman" by Ann S. Stephens

And somehow he lived through that terror-haunted day and night.

"Carmen Ariza" by Charles Francis Stocking

Her eyes were full of terror, which always haunted her.

"The Making of Mona" by Mabel Quiller-Couch

Cold terror wrap thee in his close embraces, And bear thee shrieking to his haunted den.

"Eidolon" by Walter R. Cassels

In these haunting terrors there was, of course, a distinct token of possible insanity.

"Brooke's Daughter" by Adeline Sergeant

But the big brute was a creature of abject terror, staring out with fear-haunted eyes.

"Astounding Stories, July, 1931" by Various

To rid himself of this haunting terror, he told all to me under the seal of the confessional.

"Anne" by Constance Fenimore Woolson

But in the large blue eyes was a look of terror, a kind of haunted look.

"A Veldt Vendetta" by Bertram Mitford

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In poetry:

No midnight terrors haunt their bed,
No arrow wounds by day;
Unhurt on serpents they shall tread,
If found in duty's way.

"The Believer's Safety" by John Newton

No heart can share the terror
That haunts his monstrous dark.
The light that filters through the chinks
No other eye can mark.

"Listen..." by Ogden Nash

Till at length the lays they chanted
Reached the chamber terror-haunted,
Where the monk, with accents holy,
Whispered at the baron's ear.

"The Norman Baron" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

His young lips show no stir of breath.
Ah, — I begin to understand,
And I remember: — this is Death!
The haunting terror of the land.

"Song of the Enfifa River" by Laurence Hope

I recognized the nameless agony,
The terror and the tremor and the pain,
That oft before had filled or haunted me,
And now returned with threefold strength again.

"The Two Angels. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First)" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And then I raise my head
From terror-haunted bed,
And hush my breath, and my very pulses hush and hark;
But as I glance around,
The stir, the murmuring sound,
Dies away in the moonlight, lying there stiff and stark.